That was... the flames flickering in joy...
the jewel shimmering in sadness...
In most lives, on most dinner tables...
was her wine
Loraine de Saint-Laurent,
the young woman who defied her oppressive fate
This is the unknown story of the half of her life
spent close to the earth

Ah... she's standing in the field again today,
a short flame that seems long
Most things obtained and most things lost
have passed away with time...
Ah... there is something there that does not change
no matter how many seasons pass
The vineyard shared with the man she loved,
her grandfather's kind employee

Ah... for the delicate pruning of the grapevine,
cool temperatures and low humidity are ideal
The early spring of the wine-growers
Begins after the Feast of Saint Vincent, their patron saint
Ah... if you wish for an unreasonable quantity,
the quality will naturally decline
The role of the parent
Is to deal out sufficient love, grain by grain

Her authoritarian father...
her gold-digger stepmother...
Though they were aristocrats, their inclination towards ostentation
had them well on the way to ruin...
To dispel the shadows of the sun setting on the count's family
Their last trump card was... the marriage of their daughter
Ah... not knowing that the marriage was all for show--
A red smile floated on the stepmother's jewel...

I will likely never love again in my lifetime;
indeed, I am probably incapable of doing so
However, if I can quench someone's thirst,
then I will offer up this body...
My sweet children slumbering in barrels of oak...
I wonder what they are dreaming of
The sweetness of the fruit's flesh
The astringency of the fruit's peel
The blessings of the earth that my beloved left behind
The harmony created by the interweaving of joy and sorrow --
that flavor is my wine
-- And... that's life

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